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| Bayraktar Yolu Sokak 48 |
Our apartment building, home since July 15. Not actually a very long walk from the old city - we used to walk over to the market every Thursday morning. The only deterrent is the heat unless it’s early morning or evening. Would have worked better if the lockdown had not been during the weeks when the temperatures were most moderate, although the countries that waited to lock down have not, unsurprisingly, done nearly as well, so no regrets.
Photo was taken standing in the shade, which is the shadow of the supermarket next door. The structure on the left of the photo is the municipal market, so couldn’t be much more convenient re grocery shopping. Our flat is the one on the top floor left hand side. Four flats per storey. It’s actually two bedroom, although only our bedroom and the open kitchen/sitting room area have air conditioning units. The smaller bedroom does have a fan but we only use that room to store our suitcases.
The view from the balcony is a bit difficult to appreciate from a photo, or at least one of this quality. Immediately behind the buildings is the Mediterranean, maybe a kilometre away, but the thin visible strip of it behind the lower buildings tends, with any haziness, to blend with the blue of the sky. The farthest distant trees to the right are in the old city and the stone coloured bit immediately underneath the red triangle far right is the mosque in the square of the old city. Market building is in the foreground to the right of the balcony.
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